The Company identified opportunities for improvements in its workforce realignment, strategy and staffing, and increased its focus on performance management, to ensure it has the right skillsets and number of associates to execute its long-term vision. As such, the Company extended voluntary and involuntary severance and separation benefits to certain associates in order to facilitate its workforce realignment. In addition, the Company engaged consultants to assist in reviewing the optimization of the Company’s operations and improving profitability with executing on its Company-wide initiative, referred to as Mission Critical, through fiscal year 2023.

In fiscal year 2021, the Company announced an enhanced customer support model, including a transition from the branch office network to virtual customer care hubs. Along with this transition, the Company closed 73 sales branches and realigned certain existing locations from branch offices to regional inventory centers or warehouses. Restructuring and other costs for fiscal year 2021 consist of impairment charges for operating lease assets, net of gains related to settlement of lease liabilities, associate severance and separation costs, and other exit-related costs.


	For the Fiscal Years Ended
	September 3,		August 28,
	2022		2021
Operating lease asset impairment loss	$	—	$	17,923
Settlement of lease liabilities (gain)		—		(2,948)
Consulting-related costs		8,188		8,615
Associate severance and separation costs		5,753		4,267
Equity award acceleration costs associated with severance		1,728		253
Other exit-related costs		136		3,282
Total restructuring and other costs	$	15,805	$	31,392

Liabilities associated with restructuring and other costs are included in Accrued expenses and other current liabilities in the Consolidated Balance Sheets. The following table summarizes activity related to liabilities associated with restructuring and other costs:


	Consulting-related costs		Separation and severance costs		Other exit-related costs		Total
Balance as of August 29, 2020	$	4,063	$	6,927	$	—	$	10,990
Additions		8,615		4,267		3,282		16,164
Payments and other adjustments		(9,350)		(10,827)		(2,841)		(23,018)
Balance as of August 28, 2021		3,328		367		441		4,136
Additions		8,188		5,753		136		14,077
Payments and other adjustments		(10,676)		(4,246)		(577)		(15,499)
Balance as of September 3, 2022	$	840	$	1,874	$	—	$	2,714